lithocore

Services

It has been widely acknowledged that core handling is critical to the maintenance of core integrity. Unfortunately, cores often don’t undergo adequate handling procedures

The rig site handling of unconsolidated core is a risky process that might hamper core integrity if appropriate procedures are utilized.

The main purpose of core preservation is to retain the pore fluids in the undisturbed core samples thus preventing saturation and wettability alteration.

Cases of invasion of core-stabilization products into fractures are often seen. This represents a common and often serious problem in the subsequent geological description of slabbed cores.

The fundamental objective of coring is to obtain core that is representative of the reservoir rock properties.

StoreCore primarily serves the Oil Industry but also provides services to numerous Universities and Research Institutions.

Kirk Petrophysics provides expert on-site core handling services.

Kirk Petrophysics provides expert on-site core handling services.

These services include the following disciplines:

Core Plugging
Kirk Petrophysics supplies and operates an air powered plugging tool that is capable of extracting 1” diameter plugs from sleeved cores.
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Core Packaging
Kirk Petrophysics offers a safe solution to store core samples of any size into a friendly specially design container.
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Core Photography Studio
The answer to the above is not necessarily a single reason but an accumulation of improvements whose sum is largely beneficial to the operator.
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Core Slabbing
A geological core sample is slabbed by advancing the sample against a horizontally oriented band saw blade.
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Gamma Ray
Kirk Petrophysics supplies and operate a portable Total or Spectral gamma ray at the wellsite on the full inner barrel length. Service ideal for decision making, sampling depths correlation.
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Xtrem-UV
This service allows capturing of core features such as lithology, sedimentary structures, the extent of mud invasion and fluorescence coloring and its intensity from the end face of the core immediately after the cut in shorter section.
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Mini permeameter
Kirk Petrophysics supplies and operate a hand held mini permeameter for the record of permeability measurement in the range of approximately 1 milliDarcy to 10 Darcy's.
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CORIAS
The Corias AS3D digitizer is the only way to perform fracture analysis on old slabbed or broken cores.
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EPSLOG
Determination of rock strength properties is fundamental to predict short and long-term problems in well engineering and production that can ultimately lead to costly consequences such as wellbore instability of the well and sand production.
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